Backgrounder

The Synod on the Family will conclude with the beatification of Pope Paul VI on Sunday. His biographer called him the first modern pope. Here, Thomas Williams writes that he was a thoroughly modern saint.

Living Catholic

Bruce Dawe's much admired poem 'Life-cycle' parodied the near religiosity of Australian obsession with sport - but for elite AFL sportsman Daniel Wells, God and family take precedence, in his personal life-cycle.